[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!

effe iets anders effeietsanders at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 20:04:20 UTC 2009


But could they be uploaded afterwards? (assuming the source files are still
available?)

Lodewijk

2009/9/4 Brion Vibber <brion op wikimedia.org>

> On 9/4/09 1:01 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> > 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of
> > the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious
> > downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all
> > presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I
> > know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to
> > the audio of the talk.
>
> Higher-res versions would be very nice, but would have been much harder
> to get done and uploaded as quickly. :) Maybe next year, when we've got
> more of the new video upload support in place!
>
> I would definitely encourage everybody to upload slides and link them
> with the video versions; PDF slides can be uploaded directly to Commons
> and can now be viewed inline as well as downloading them.
>
> > 3. On the videos with a Q&A segment the audience often doesn't have a
> > microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks
> > provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible,
> > could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for
> > the benefit of the camera?
>
> Moderators/assistants from the local team were usually pretty good about
> getting the microphones around or else reminding the speaker to repeat
> questions, but of course this gets forgotten sometimes.
>
> -- brion
>
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